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  New Forest Players presents Calendar Girls Written by Tim Firth Based on the Film by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth Directed by Lyn Lockyer   When Annie’s husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow WI members to pose nude with them for an ‘alternative’ calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village

  Bournemouth Little Theatre presents Neville’s Island By Tim Firth; Directed by Barbara Evans   This is a black comedy about four out-of-condition, middle managers on a team building initiative in the Lake District, who succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on Derwentwater.  Bound in by fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recrimination, French cricket and sausages. A successful film was made of the play, starring Timothy Spall and Martin Clunes. Neville’s Island is being staged at Bournemouth Little Theatre from 6 – 10 June 2023 at